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MacOSX SSHMenu

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Available on Mac App Store

MacOSX SSHMenu is seemed to Gnome SSHMenu, a great tool for who uses Gnome and uses lots of SSH connections.

Once you have SSHMenu running, you can add your SSH title/params clicking on "Add Host". When you want to open that SSH server, you just choose the SSH host and press Return.

Update - 2011-02-26

Now, MacOSX-SSHMenu is in the version 2.1. The version 1.0 were made using Python, but I had some issues with versions incompatibilities so I couldn't make it stable enough to distribute. Now, the version 2.1 is made using ObjectiveC.

Not only that, I noticed that version 1.0 had 2 problems:

  1. when main menu had many items, system icons were hidden
  2. and when SSH hosts list were long, it was worth to search

So I made the version 2.0 different: you just open the application and start to type and it will find SSH host for you. It's easier and pretty simple.

Download and Installing

Just download it using GitHub, compile it (you will need for XCode 3 or latest to do it) and run it :)

License

MacOSX SSHMenu is under LGPL 3.0, this means you can copy, distribute, read and change the source code, since you keep people aware about who is the author. If you want to help me, you can send your patch and I will be glad about your efforts.

In Mac App Store, SSHMenu is available under EULA, because it has my support. But you are free to download the source code from GitHub and compile with XCode 3.2 or higher with no costs.

Source code

The source is available on Git repository. You can just clone it and see by yourself:

git clone git://github.com/marinho/MacOSX-SSHMenu.git

You will need XCode to compile and run from the source files.

What more

That's all. The rest you will know how to do by yourself :P

Anyway, let me know about your thoughts.